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In 1991 Will Smith Was Caught Making Fun of a Bald Celebrity

A hypocrite in the making?

Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
3 min readMar 29, 2022
Will Smith on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1991 (Source: YouTube)

WWill Smith slapping Chris Rock for a joke made about his wife was more than enough to make the biggest scene in the history of television. The cherry on top is Will Smith actually being awarded an Oscar 20 minutes after the incident as if nothing had happened. Chris Rock played it very well after being slapped in a professional manner.

The question that many asked is if Rock’s joke was a bit too much or was Smith’s poor sense of humor was the cause and poor choice of action in the wrong? Who was in the wrong? Well maybe both of them, but a video that has been discovered on the internet from an old show that Will Smith attended shows his hypocrisy to the world.

The internet has been taken by storm about this event, and people are creating irrelevant scenarios. However, there is one piece of evidence that we cannot neglect. In 1991 Will Smith attended “The Arsenio Hall Show” which was quite popular in America at the time. All of the contemporary celebrities attended this show.

As a presenter, we had Arsenio Hall famous American actor who became popular in the later 1970s, early 1980s. He was the writer, host, and producer of this late-night talk show which had huge success in the early 1990s. On the night that Will Smith…

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Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

Written by Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

Avid Writer with invaluable knowledge in Humanity! “You make your own life” atapalaga97@gmail.com

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